Dear Florent (or Georges as the case may be :-),
Here is the response of Simon Pepping, a FOP developer (he didn't
succeed to post directly to XSL List):
The FOP development team encourages all users of FOP to upgrade
to version 0.92. Soon we hope to follow up with version 0.93,
which we believe to be of production quality. You can check the
coverage of the XSL-FO spec on FOP's compliance page
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html. Besides a
greater coverage of the XSL-FO spec, FOP 0.9x has a better
layout engine. It uses the famous Knuth algorithm both for line
breaking and page breaking. For other features see the overview
at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/latest/index.html, menu
item 'features'.
Because this version is in active development, contrary to the
"latest stable release" 0.20.5, reported bugs are fixed, and
new features are being implemented continually. Better font
support is on the short term todo list.
These are all excellent reasons to go with 0.92 beta for "real work",
but are less compelling for a classroom scenario, where:
(a) the maintenance/upgrade cycle is different (and hopefully slower)
(b) bugs and shortcomings can be learning opportunities rather than
drop-dead problems (especially when learning XSL and other formatters
are on hand to compare)
Nevertheless, this is valuable information and we can definitely use
it -- even if we still go with 0.20.5 on classroom machines for now,
we'll tell students not to take it home but get the newer one. :-)
Cheers,
Wendell
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